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The Brussels Post, 1892-7-8, Page 6THE BRUSSELS POST. tilli4Y 81 1892 YOUNG FOLKS. Doughnut Tree. tetleould I And the doughnut tree, Wbose fruit a sweet repast Did oft in childhood's hungry hours Aseiet to break a fast. Itgrow upon the kitchen bearth, W_Ithin aFootklng pot. -And bore its fruit at :mucky times, Allrieh rind piping hot. Santeetio shapes ite fruit took oft, In twists, and (merle, and toys And on social deye it, droned rat, pudgy girls and beYs, With eager haste were quickly seised 'Those doughnut boys and girls, Who found at once a guillotine Between two rows of pearls, The fruit, well shaken from the tree, Was stored within ajar, Ikit youthful nostrils. quick and keen Did scent it from afar. And to that place what raids were made Far into darkest night; 'Twas but a blissful dream -and then Tho jar was empty quite. Oh could I find the doughnut tree, And see it as of yore, Da seize upon it,s luscious fruit, And be a child once more, 1 mystery, It is now raerelly admitted that the stones are of p anetary origin,not , ot ot tuner oriatgin, as was ore time conjectured, aud that their luminoeity is the result of the frietion occasioved by their rapid motion throtigh the resisting atmosphere. It has been calculated that setting aside the reels - tame of air, au initial velocity of about 8,000 feet in a second, about live or eix times that of a 0001100 ball, would bring the stones to the earth at a, voloeity of 35,000 feet a second ; but (Shen% one of the greet. est atiehorities 001 he geuerel subject, bolds that to Recount for the ireteal measured velocity of meteoric etones the original velocity of projection must be at least four- teen times greater than the above. It is now a well-recognized feet that there are certain seasons in white). these meteoric stones are more lieblo to make their appear. ante than in others. They are, in fact, per- iodic ; and the favorite months are April July, August, November, and December. November has the grandest record, and the most brilliant displays of which we bare reliable accounts have been witnessed in November, 1799, 11333, and 1806 -at in- tervals, it meat be observed, of thirty-four years. According to prediction the next grand display will be in 194, These state. inents and figures, it is well to bear in mind, apply rather to what we are in the habit of calling meteoric: showers than to the single solid mass such as that which has found its resting place in the waters of the Caspian. The atones, large and small, are for the most part of uniform composition, consist- ing principally of silica, magnesia, andiron, with small quantities of nickel, sulphur, and chromium. Among the large stones of which we have record, in addition to those alreedy mentioned as persumably of the same origin, is the great stone which fell at Aegespoutinie, on the Hellespont, in 407 B. 0., end which was still shown in tho days ot Pliny, toward the close of the first Chris- tian century. 11 10 deaeribed is being about the aize of a wagon. A ponderous stone fell in Alsace, near the village of Ensisheim, in 1492, weighing 260 pounds. It is still to be seen in the villege church. An immense mass of this kind is to be seen in the Im- perial Museum at Si, Petersburg, but the largest known aerolite hitherto is one which fell in Brazil. Its estimated weight is 14,• 000 pounds. If report speaks truth, the presumption now is that the Brazilian stone will have to take second place. 444 -4,444.444444444444444444.4444444444444444444.4.4-4-444.4..... lula, in Mexico. Latterly, however, seienee LATE FOREIGN NEWS has stripped these objeete of mneli of their Cinderella's Slippers. "Do you know", said Edna, looking up zuddenly from the book she was reading, **I really don't see how she could do it". Bert, from his geography lesson gave her ran amazed stare. "Do what ?" he asked, " Wear them", answered Edna, vaguely. Then catching the general expression of -wonder, she explained hurriedly : "01 I forgot you didn't know what I was reading; it's Cinderella". "Cinderella 1" repeated her mother with smile. "Wo are still in the dark. What is it she couldn't do ?" " Wear her slippers -glass slippers", said dna, slowly. "She couldn't you know." " Why not I" asked Dave, the youngest Boy. "The book says so. Her feet were 00 8111011-1 mean the slippers were so small --that no feet but Cinderella's would fit them." "9 know that," said Edna laughing; "but I don't believe Cinderella or any one else could dance in glass slippers, because they would break all to pieces." " But they were fairy slippers, and ,couldn't break," protested Dave. "It's only a fairy story anyhow," put in "and everything is possible to airies." "I should'nt wonder," said Bert, with an air of impeder wisdom (Bert was in the bigh school), "that they were malleable _glees. We read of such material in ancient annals, and Cinderella's slippers may have been made of that." Mr. Anniston had been listening to this discussion with interested attention, and mow spoke for the first time : "Perhaps I can throw some light on this dark subject. ',Cinderella never did wear glass slippers" "0 papa 1" cried Dave, "the book says ao " "1 know it," admitted Mr. Anniston, 'but that is a blunder of the translator. The delightful little story was originally French, and the French author says that Cinderella wore pantoufles de vair-that is, -.fur slippers,' which is quite natural." "Then why did the English translator 'say glass?" questioned Bert. "Because he was careless. The French word for glass is terra, and its substitution for vair gave Cinderella the slippers, which, 'however pretty, could not have been at all corntortable.' "Well, I declare 1" cried Dave. And everybody else laughed. The Happiest Little Boy. " Guess who was the happiest child I saw to -day ?" asked papa, ta,kine his own two little boys on his knees. " Oh, who papa ?" But you mustguess." 4, Well," said aim, slowly, "I guess it was a very wich little boy, wit lots anti lots of tandy and takes." " No," aaid papa, "he wasn't rich, he had no candy or no cakes. What do you guess, Joe?" " I guess he was a pretty big boy," said Joe, who was always wishing he wasn't such a little boy, 44 and I guess he was rid- ing a big, high bioyole." " No," said paps, "he wasn't big; and of course, he wasn't riding a bioyele. You have lost your guesses, eo I'll have to tell you. There was a flock of sheep crossing the city to -day, and they must have come a long way, so dusty and tired and thirsty were they. The drover took them up, bleating and lolling out their tongues, to the great putnp in Hamilton court, to water them; but one poor old ewe was too tired to get to the trough, end fell down in the hot, dusty stones. " Then I saw my little man, ragged and dirty and tousled, spring out from the crowd of urchins who were watching the drove, Ell his old, leaky, felt hat, which musthave belonged to his grandfather, and carry it one, two, three, 0, so many as six times, to the poor, suffering animal, until the creature was able to get up and go on with the rest." " Did the sheep say, 'Tank you,' papa ?" asked Jim, gravely. "I didn't hear it," answered papa. "But the little boy's face was shining like the sun, and I'm sure he knows what a blessed thing it is to help what needs helping." THE FALL OF AN AEROLITE. -- gunermtilfons Regarding Them in Times rest. One of the largest aerolites ever known is said to have fallen into the Caspian Sea, at no great distance from the Peninsula, et Apsheron, a neck of land which runs into the Caspian and forms the eastern point of the Canoes:tan chain. It is a peouliar re- gion, sulphur end other inflammable matter being mixed up with the soil. It is known as the place of the seared flame, and it was from thie region the fire worshippers of Asia ,thiew their superstition. One is tempted to say that the great aero - lite in its descent revealed a natural pref- erence, It sought a sympathetic region, If it did make a mistake in finding a watery bed. The stone is said to proseot about twelve feet above the surface of the sea, which at that place is of considerable depth. In falling, we are told, it made a tremendous Proise and illuminated land and sea for miles eround, throwing out vast clouds of steam when it reached the water. it is natural that acientists should take an interest in the phenomenon; end it is reasonable to conelude that at ho distant day we shall have as the result of their examination full anti Betide°, tory reports. ODUCTS 00 Stinte.sirrioN. In tirnee gone by theee meteoric stones were regarded with superstitions reverence. At Emeaa, in Syria, therein wes worshipped under the form of a black sone, said to have f ellen from heaven. The holy atone -the " Oh, thank you, dames," elle said ; Kaaba -at, Mecca has a similar history. So " thank you, You 000 20 kind. It's jest , lute the great stone of the pyramid of Cho.1 like you, VEGETARIANISM. No Reason Why Ran Should absolutely Forsake the -fleshpots. We are continually being told, says the London Telegraph, that in the first ages of the world mankind lived wholly on the vegetable productions of the earth, and that even at this day millions of human beings in Asie and Africa subsist in a simi- lar manner. Then we have that emhsent authority, Sir John Sinelair, who noted that the Tartars, who live principally Ion animal food, possess a degree of ferocity of miud and fierceness ot character whieh form the leading features of all carnivorous animals. Furthermore, we are reminded that the celebrated surgeon, Mr. Abernethy, maintained that many persons acquire pre- posterous noses, others blotches on the face, and others inflammation of the eyes -all arising from irritation of the stomach, caused by eating animal substances. It is true that the great doctor, who was him- self of a convivial temperamwh ent, en lie was asked why he did not practice what hem preaohed, replied by remding . the in- quirer of the old story of the parson and the sign put. -both pointed the right way, but neither followed its course. The Vegetarian Society, who met in council et Salford, by Manches• ter, in August, 1829, were just as enthusi- astic, and in many respaets just as nnreas- onable, as the Vegetarian Federal Union, who banqueted and crated recently; but, at the seine time, it is obvious to those who have attentively studied and diligently tested the principal components of the food of man, in differeut countries and nuder varying conditions of civilization, that there are many admirable features in the vegetarian amine, and that the kitchen in question should be, to a reasonable extent, encouraged and patronized, were it only for the reason that the English people do not eut half enough green meat, and that when they have any vegetables on their tables those esculents are, in nine cases out of ten, abominably cooked. With a little taste, a litale appreciation, and a modicum of common sense, a cook, who need net be by any means a vegetarian, might send Op a dinner of 5 or 6 courses, containing no fresh meat whatever, but comprising such animal products as butter, milk,cheese and eggs, of u nature thoroughly to satisfy an exigent committee of epicures who, on most days ef the week, were meat eaters. Who can sayanything. adverse to green pea soup with rice, in which the peas are stewed with sliced onions, carrots, turnips and a head of celery, strained through a sieve flmm flavored with ushroo catsup, rendered smooth with butter, mingled with rice boiled very tender ; thickened with the yolks of eggs, ard with milk or cream ; boiled up again, and eerved up hot with sippets? White purees of turnip, Jerusalem artichokes, errowroot, barley, sago, semolina, potatoes and pars- nips can be made as tasty as soups of spin- ach, peas and young cabbage, while brown pottages, full of wholetomeness and flavor, can be prepared from °Mons, narrate, tome, toes, hop -tops and such herbs as beet, sorrel leek and purslain. It must not be thought that either the Salford vegetarians 0( 1829 or the Vegetarian Federal Unionists of 1892 have any claim to the invention of purely vegetarian soups, or, indeed, of any of the more conspicuous items in the modern vege- tarian bill of fare. Recipes for most of these dainties were printed in a folio anti. tled "The Diet of the Dieeased,'' the work of a worthy physician who flourished early in the reign ef Charles but who, while he scrupulously admonished his (in:cipher to abstain from the fleshpots, whether they were Egyptian or English, did not hesitate to enjoin the generous exhibition an bever- ages, of old ale, Canary wine and exhibition, A Prudent Girl. Elderly- Relative (to school • gir1)- "Amanda, you are looking pale. You must not be too ambitious. Tell me the truth, now -haven't you been burning the mid• night oil ?" Mise Amanda (het palenese ell gone)- Why, yea, auntie, but -but not much, We turned the lamp down very low." Slat Like Him. A young man gave his sweetheart a pug dog as a birthday present, It wee at the purest, blood, but its nose was particularly short. The grateful reeipiont was profuse with her acknowledgemente, Greenwich mean time is to be introduced into Belgium, An attempt to cultivate oysters in the Bahia has been a failare 50,000 oysters widsh were transplanted have nearly all died owing to the ealt in the water, In Kieft, Russia large numbers of cases of the sale of children have occurred. A peasant in the Gaisinsk district recently disposed of his eight-year old daughter for six rouble% Some village lads in Shelton, Conn., while "playing circus," hanged little Eddie Gould as a horse -thief. The performances was eo natural that a physioian exercised his skill half an hour before Eddie recovered con- seiousness. A tribal law in Mashena, Central Airica, decrees the death by drowning of twin babies immediately after they are born. The Sultan is coming under the suspieion of being consumptive. His mother died of it, and he showed symptoms when he was 02. French reporters now take notes at night by the light of a tiny incandescent lamp at- tached to the pencil. Owing to the prohibition of the export of grains, except wheat, from Russia, the price of bread in Greece rose a penny a loaf, In Brisbane there tire 21,600,000 sheep and 6,250,000 cattle. Last eeason's clip and wheat °rope were the largest ever known in the colony. Rubber -heels ,to facilitate marching, are to be attached to the shoes worn by French soldiers, Experiments with them have given decided satisfaction. The daughter of Thomas Kennman, of Elmira, Ind., while asleep, etepped out of a third -story window, but was only slightly hurt. 1Vhen the Grand Duke Paul, of Russia, travels, he earths his bed with him. He is so tall that no ordinary bed will enable hint to stretch his lege. Jay Gould's outlay, in pocket -money amounts to about 835 a month, and he rare- ly has more than $10 in his clothe, Nearly all his purchases are paid for in cheeks. A dish -washing in:whine has been for some time in use in a New York hotel. With two persons to attend it, it washes one thousand dishes an hour. To keep himself cool, the 'King of Siam has a house made of glass, hermetically sl- ed. This he enters and it is so contrived as to be readily sunk, in water. A four -inch pipe supplies ventilation. Tiger -hunting in India, as now conducted, is perilous sport. Formerly the...animals were shut from platforms erected in the forests. Now the daring sportsmen hunt them on foot. A Roman scientist, Or. Fossenari, has successfelly demonstrated that disease germs are almost immediately killed by to- bacco smoke. A French artist, M. Marey, has succ ed - ed in photographing a flying insect. The time of exposure was only the 1 -2500th of a second. The umbrella business does not flourish in Aden, Arabia. Dering the last twenty- nine yeers rain has only fallen there twice. A poor woman in Bonham, Texas, maker' her living by going about the streets, and there sewing buttons on men's garments. It is estimated that twenty-five tons of gold aremined every week, throughout the world. More divorces are'granted in the United States than in all the rest of the Christian world. A colony of bees attacked a horse in Les- lie, Ga., anl so severely stung him that he dled. An indignant justice of the petwe iu Barry, 111., fined a poor marksman six dol- lars for firing six shots at his wife. The weapon was a six•shooter. Had it been a sever -shooter, the man would have prob- ably been fined one dollar more, A number of skeletons of lull -grown per. sons have recently been discovered in Roman receptacles in a cave at Luton Fort. The bones were in re perfect: state of preser- vation, and one eat measured seven feet in length. A Frenchman recently brought 500 parrots from Brazil to dispose of in Paris. An epi- demie broke out among the birds, from which all but two died. The contagion then spread to the persons who kept them, and several have .suceumbed to an infectious pneumonia. A Sumatra newspaper tells of experi. ments made there last month to test the value of a lewd petroleum as compared with American and Russian ells, and says the experiments " proved conclusively that it is superior in brilliancy, in permanence, and in absence of smoke, color, and smell to either American or Russian oil." With the uost of freight dedneted, it is said that this Sumatra oll peomiees to be a formid- able competitor with the American prod- ucts in Japan, China, and the far Eastern markets generally. The paper quoted says the Sumatra oil will be even cheaper than American without considering the freight question. Nothing is said, however, ea to the probable extentof the supply. A "slasher "bus lately appeared in To - kb, Late Japanare newspepers tell of the intense alarm created in that city through the operatione of a man who steals upon women at, nightfall and inflicts knife wounds on their faces, apparently with no objeet whatever but the gratification of sheer ma- lice. All the efforts of the pollee to trace the slasher have been unavailing. He gen. orally chooses girls of about the same age, proof that he goes to work with delibere, nom and epparently with some set idea. The aceounte given by the girle u hom he has attacked are identical in every ease, There is no warning., the eria,n displays no weapon, nor is there any notion ati though to stab or strike. A man comes up to them sndlenly to within Merit length, and then tiro ws the palm ofhis band Dorm their face'and a wound of oonsiderable depth and length is inflicted. It wouli seem that a small blade is fastened inside Mei fingers so as to be effective in whatever dIrention his hand is passed, A number of such outrages were commited in the heart of the city ear- ly lath month, and girls and women are afraid to venture mit after nightfall, unless under ample escort. Ex.President White, of Cornell Universi- 63', possesses the firer bound copy of Dick- ens' Dombey and Son, The two larger emitter schools, HA:1year, will be that at Chautauqua, opening on July 6, and that, at Bay View, Mieb,, epee. ing July 12. Thirty-six oollegee and se/nineties receive by the Fayerwerithor will $8,725,000 in stuns from $150,000 to $450,000, licomitals receive $500,000, making atoll 1 of $1,285,- 000, Golden Thoughts for Fvery Day. Monday -- Up to be Mile 1 lift mine eyes, The eternal hills beyond the AA les ; Thence all her help my soul acne Yes, There my almighty refuge i111134 He lives -the everleating God, That, bent the world, That 01101 ,1 the flood The heavens witit 401their 110444.44 lie 11114a434 And the dark regions of the deed. Ho guides our feet, Ito guards our way; Hismorning smiles bless all the day: lie spreads the evening veil. and keeps The silent hours while Israel sleeps. Israel, ft namo divinely blest, May 1100st:cure. securely rest: The holy Guardian's wakeful eyes Adtnit no slumber nor surprise. -(Anon, Tuesday -Observe on a summer's evening how other bees act, and then go and do like - Wise. Wearied by the heat end labor of the clay, they slumber peacetelly in the calyx of the flowers, The latter inclose them with their tender petals, and the gentle whispers of the evening zephyr rock the reposing; and well -secured insect on its balmy conele How sweet the rest! So do thou also slumber in the calyx of the Rose of Sharon, Forget thyself in thinking ofJ esus. Be He thy all, and his promises and merits the covering over thee and the pillow beneath thy head. 0 then, what does it matter if the tempest howls without, and croaking night -birds flutter around thee? Soft is thy couch, and the banner over thee is love. -[Bishop Wilberforce. Wednesday-. Tis a life-]ong toil till our lump be leaven - The bettor 1 what's come to perfection per- ishes, Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven. Works done least rapidly, Art most cherish - 08 -(Robert Browning. Thursday -My retirement Isms now be- come solitude ; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost the worst. In coniplete solitude, the eye wants objects, the heart wants at tachments, the understanding wants reci- procation. The character loses it tender- ness when it has nothing to love, its firm - nese when it has none to strengthen it, its sweetness when it hes nothing to soothe it, its patience when it meets no contradic- tion, its humility when it is surrounded by dependants, and its delicacy in the conver- sations of the uninformed-PTannah More. Friday - Oft have I walked those woodland paths, Without the bleat foreknowing That underneath the withered leaves, The fairest buds wore growing. To -day the south wind sweeps away The types of au tutnn's splendor. And shows the sweet nrbu ins Rowers, Spring's children pure and tender. 0, prophet flowers l-withllps of bloom Outvying in thy beauty Tho pearly tints of ocean shells - Ye teach me faith and duty! "Walk life's dark ways," ye seem to say, "With love's divine foreknowing That where man sees but Withereelenvos, God sees sweet flowero growing." -[Albert Leighton. Saturday -It is not good for man to be alone. Hitherto all things that have been named were approved of God to be very good ; loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good. -[Milton. Tom Thumb's Ingenuity. Gen, Tom Thumb became a slave to the drink habit in his latter clays. After Bar- num had taken him to Europe and had ad- vertised .him extensively a siirewd theatri- cal manager conceived the idea of starring him in a lillipntian play. A contract was signed and the tour began. The general had no dramatic ability, but the play gave him very little work to do and people turn- ed out to see the famous little men whom Barnum's genius had made known the world over. He proved a great drawing card for a while. Then lie began to drink heavily and very often disappointed large audiences by being unable to appear. After seeing his money equendered in this manner until patience ceased to be a virtue the manager decided to adopt heroic meas- ures. He set himself to watch the general and never let the little fellow out of his sight for a moment. At St. Louis the manager had occasion to leave the hotel for en hour and, determined not to take any chances, locked the general in his room. When he returned he was struck speechless wtth astoniehinent. The door was locked, but stretched upon the floor was Tom Thumb as drunk as a lord. No aooner had the manager left than the general rattled the actor until he attracted the attention of a bell boy. Slipping a dollar under the door, he instructed the boy to go to a saloon, buy a pint of whisky and an ordinary clay pipe., When the boy re• turned the general told him to put the pipe - stem through the keyhole and pour the liquor into the pipe -bowl. He did so and the dwarf, standing on tip -toe, phured his lips to the pipeatem and drank himself into total unconeciouaness.-(Chkago Foxes Are as Ba -d as the Rabbits. Australians hove had bitter experienee of the mischief which rabbits are capable of doing, and new they seem likely to have trouble of a similar kind from the introduc- tion of foxes. Am Australian journel, quot- ed in the May number of the London Zool- ogist, says that foxes have already spread over a wide area, and are most destructive both to iambs and poultry, They a ttain gheater size and strength in Australis, than 10 Englaud, and the inikl climate is highly favorable to the increase of their numbers, " It must be very disheartening," says the writer, " to all who have stuck of any kind to lose, to find them:wives confrontea by some new enemy introduced by thoughtless or selflth persons. If some energetic steps are not, soon 'Wien, nothing can prevent the spread of foxes over the whole continent." A New Discovery. The following erratic snewer of a sehool boy at, an examination to the question, ',What do you know about Captain Cook?' is a geed example of the little knowledge being a dangerous* thing, " Captain Cook, who was born in Wales, wag a great explorer ; he went to America and changed his name to Mr. H. M. Stanley end at ones became a great fat/barite. He went to Africa to stop the slave trade, and woo meet successful. On hie return he wrote a book called 'In Darkest Africa, and the Way Out,' which proposes to emigrate all the negroes to England. Mr. Stanley is the greatest hero of the present day." She-" Women cannot be satirical, any more than they eau be humorous." Ho- " If that's to, how is it that whon a man m ()poses, after courting a girl for seven yeara, she saysOh, George, this is so sudden 7" Emile Olivier, the Minister of Napoleon 511, has lo long disappeared from 1)00110 life that in nany quarters he was assumed to he dead. Flo is thie year to esvaret the prize of virtue which is annually bestoWecl by the l'reneh Aoadomy. 14.1k111.,0 A vouth 'maids ths water sits, The no uday sun 0 warmly beaming ; HI: now tint] neek are turkey red, Ills eye with radiant hope is gleaming, He watehes close the bobbing cork Advance upon the tiny ; A Jerk, a ewish, and high abeve He lauds a sucker in the wIllowe. That's fishing, A. fair maid trips the tennis court, A dozen eyes admire her going t Her black -and -yellow blazer berms A hole rigtit through the sunset's glowing. She drives the ball across the eet, Aud into hearts e :twinned with wishing She drives a dart from Cupid's bow ; She'll laud a sucker, too, She's fishing, That's fishing. The politician on his rounds Tackles both workingman and granger ; He tries to make them -think that Lie Alone can save the land from danger. He chucks the baby on the chin, /de says your wife looks really youthful, And, though you know you're fifty-five, You look Jest twenty -if he's truthful. That's fishing, kb, little wife beside me stands Aud steals a dimpled arm around me; A, else upon titydes-that's bait - Some informal' to astound me, Her bonnet is quite out of style, Her suinmer warp 91160 past the using. That lovely one -so enettp-at 13rown's Is just tbe one she would be chooeing. That's fishing, Se, whether the game be fish or men, The' bait be kisses, W01•4113 or Utilities - The place at hotne, by strmy tmol, Or tennis ground nt evemng's hushes - 'Vs the old game th" sermett ph,yed Wttb Mother Et'o la E len's bowers, And Adam's son, and daughters all Will love the sport to time's Met hours. Thai's fishing. rialto or the Giitrrell in a Scrap. A. good thing has just leaked out concern- ing a church fair held it) UtiCA net very long ago. When the booths were being put in position tem men had a disagreeineut as to what position in the hall a certain booth should occupy. It was a small matter, of course, but eadh disputant was sure he was right. There was a war of words, and oue Invited the other outside to settle the diffi- culty, Those who witnessed the settlement said it was otilque and amusing. Which party net the ball rolling will never be knee n. There was a swish of fists in tho air, two angry getting, a, sprinkling of blood front two damaged nasal appendages, a whirl of arms and legs, and the booth , builders rolled over one another in the I mud. Two serrydooking pillars of the eligreh they were when separated and sent home to reenperate. The booth went up, butwhether its position was mutually satisfactor3 has not been learned.-Utiee. Observer. straightening Japanese E3 es. "I was recently in Japan,'. says an Am- etioan, "and I met theme several American and German dnetors who were getting rich by straightening the slant in the Japatiese eye to make it look like the beloved Cauca- SillIV9 optic. The Japanese, you know, show the traces of their Mongolian origin more plainly in the shape of their eyelids than in the color of their skim and those who can afford it are ridding themselves et this unmistakable evidence of their despised ancestry by submitting to a simple aud comparatively painless surgical operation, which consists in the surgeon slitting the outer rim of the eyelids in a straight line for the barest infinitesimal part of an inch. The wound is then covered with a thin piece of chemically prepared sticking - plaster, the faithful subject of the Mikado goes on about his business as if nothing had happened, and in a few days the wound is healed and.he looks on his envious fellows through lids as straight, as the Americau*s". Chicago Herald. Paving with Sand and Water. The 'nest novel street pavement yet sug- gested is being laid on Front street, oppo. eke the postoilice, at Palatke, Fla. It is a water pavement, at least it is popularly called such. At the last meeting of the Council permission was secured from the Council to experiment on Front street, and on Thursday operations began. The idea was suggested to the inventor by the hard- ness of the seashore, and the principle lies in keeping the earth constantly damp, so that traffics thereby makes it the more com- pact. The street wits first levelled, exid a long pipe with perforations was laid in a trench down the center • the street graded from the center down tile sides -the pipe being undsrground. OonneetMn was then made with on artesian well, and the water running through the pipe saturated the en- tire street. It is beginning to harden al- ready, and the expernnent is watched with great interest. -Florida Times- Union. __- Bottom 01is Sem Out. &len Gets tell us that, counting from the sea level, the lowest body of water on the globe is the Caspian See, For centuries its surface has been gradually settling down, antil now it is eighty -live feet lower Gain thirt of its near neighbor, the 13Irtuk Sea, wlmshalso hes f.. r 1..Mw the level of:weans. The comnee, slung has been that the lusIng its wa- tees by evaporation, lott reeent investiga- tion shows that this is rest 1113 03304 Sound - jugs imide and oompated with records of soundings made 'over one hundred yeers ago reseal the astounding fact that there is even a greater depth of water now than then. This leaves hnt one hypothesis that, would seetn at all Mutable Th,b the bot- toni of the sea is actually sinking., There Is much speculation in setentific mimics as to what will be the final outcome. Political rroverbs. Pollitieks is in the mar:online jender. Coed morrels ain't always good polli• ticks. The parlieeneutary bee is our nashuna) inseek, It takes a expert, to stuff a ballot -box jn. ;Behests,. Winimin voters an' crowin' hens never come to 110 good ends. Catlin'. a pellitishun trielcy is somethin like Tahiti& elle ranebo. A ntan's politickal chances air; like a fire, too lunch warier puts them out. The mart that makes inueli money at poi. hicks oughtent to feller the bigness enny. whales high it.penitenshury. Wishes, I wish that friends were always 1,rue, And nitdives always pure; I wish tho good were not so few, I with the bad were fewer, I wish that parsons ne'or forgot To heed their pious teachings; I wish that practicilig was net SO different from teaching, Treating Waohed Lace. F,verybody knows that washed lime is Improved by being dyed'in cold coffee, but perhaps bloerles ate not &Were that if it, be dipped in 650 0 uibl become a dolor more cikelv to euit them, At nny rate, lace dyed" in tea is O, MOO change and keeps fresh longer, A Floating Island, A strip of hula nearly hell a mile long and an e'ghth af t 01iI3 wh,la ie said to be floatiug in the Pacific Ocean eff the point of Cepa klattery, Capt. George 11'. Torrey, of the fiehing sehooner Alice, whieh arrived at Seattle Wash., s few diva ego, reporte that two weeks ego his vessel wee almost run down by the floating island, The captain and Drew went on it and made a pertial examination, There was a, hub and a small farm 011 the island and other signs of habitation, although there were no sigus of life. "My vessel got caught," Baia Capt. Tor- rey, "1 was prepared to find several fat hogs and water. All the islandiii the straits have very abrupt shores, bet I was electrified to find the lino payinfj Out fathom after fathom, and still had 110 bot4101114 At last I hold the line in my bend and, although there were fifty fathoms at it over the side, the lead was not resting on the bottom. We broke loose as soon as we could and succeed- ed in getting away without losing any men although two had narrow escapes from drowning." --[San Franoisco Chronicle. Locust Flights in Morocco. The British Consul at Mogadore mentions in his report, that while on an excursion in, land, about a day's journey from Mogador, he inet flights of locusts. He says it was an astonishing and interesting though pain- ful sight, the air being in some parte so thiek with them that they formed a dense livin5 brown fog, through which he could hardly find his way, while they SO, complete- ly eonvered the ground that the utmost cau- tion was necessary in walking, as he could not tell whether he was treading on soft sand, hard slippery rock, or what, Many birds feasted on the insects, inoluding large flights of gulls from the sea, and beasts evi- dently enjoyed their share, for in the middle of the densest swarm he saw a fine red fox dancing about in the most fraetic manner, leaping up awl snapping dozens of the lo- custs in the air, until, seeing the stranger, be suddenly dropped on all fours, tuid qniokly, vanished in the live fog. Not only did the barbel get their share of the novel food (the Consul used the locusts success- fully as bait Inc them), but some of the fish of the Atlantic were found gorged with lo- custs which had been blown off the land by easterly winds. As usual, they were exten- sively eaten by the native population, both Mahomedan and Jewish A Happy Thought. A little lad who had become interested in gathering money to send the Gospel to the heathen, bit upon this happy device. He rummaged in the garret and found an old-fashioned powder -horn, which he decid- ed to make into a missiouary box. His older brother said be might have the horn, but wondered what he was going to do with 0. The large end of the horn had a wood- en bottom, and Eddie scrapecl it smooth, and asked his brother if he would out some letters on it. " Yes," said his brother, and Eddie gave him these words: Once 90000 the horn of an ox, Now Jain a missionary box. Eddie inked the letters, and then as he allowed his box to his friends they were all so pleased with his iegenuity that they all put something into it, and he becatne a large contribntor. A New Type of Ballet. English ordnance experts are interested at present over a new style of bullet for shoulder rifles that has been invented by General Tweedle. The bullet has a wise which is cloned at the base and open et the head, the case ending about half way be- tween the eh:wader and the point. Upon striking the head spreads out like a mush- room' and suddenly becomes a projectile of muchlarger caliber than it 01'343 at the time it left the gun. 1.3y this means it is thought to secure the advantages of both the small and the large caliber weapons. During its flight it has the properties of the small -sized bullet, little resistence to the air. on nen it strikes, how- ever, it does not content itself with inflict- ing a, mere wound which may or may not incapacitate the soldier struck, but it shat- ters and tears, piecing the one hit horn du comba on the instant. ' Although not primarily intended to pierce armor of any thiokness, it has been found thee the Twee& bullet is much more effec- tive for this purpose than any of the small- er calibers that have been tried iu eempeti• tion with it. " Stupidity 0 to the mind what clumsi- ness is to the body. It exhibits just the same fatal power of miechi if in its own There is no virtue in doing what you have to do. Even the devil will behave himself when lie is chained. Our prayers end God's mercy are like the two buckets in the well -when one ascends the other deoends. . Amateur Art ist,-" I should like to pre- sent the last picture I painted to some chari- table institution now whieh would you. recommend ?" Creel Lady Friend-" The blind asylum."-[Lifee Calendar, "Life is a crucible, We are thrown into it and tried. The actual weight and value, of a man are expressed in the spiritual sub• stance of the man. All else is dross," It frequently happens that painters splash the plate or other glass windows when they are painting the sash. When such is the- ease'melt some soda in very hot water and wasls them with it, using a soft flannel. It. will entirely remove the paint. An Englishman, lo an article on Ameri- canisms, mentions the word "jag" ae meaning umbrella. He is positive thab. that is the correct meening, as he say5. he sem in a nevripaper that "Last, Friday, when it was men% hard, Mr, Smith was seen coming clown the street, carrying la large jag." We crumot bear to be deeeived by our. miemies and betrayed by friends, yet we are often content to be served so by our.. salves, We are often selfish in our love, desiring. more to be loved in return than to benefit, the object, of our affection% We are some - e0 tender of 0111 tatti01111 as to uteri. fice truth or justice for fear of disturbing. them -more eareful of out friend's fueliugs than of his character, and of his continued 'regard for .ourselves than of his best web-. fare. "P11 you see this tree that has been mentioned by the toadekle?" an advocate inquired once of a witness. Yes, sir ; saw it very plainly." "It woo conspicuous. then?" The witness smiled puzzled by the. new word. Ite repeated his former asser- tion. Sneered the lawyer, What is tho difference beteseen 'plain ' and '00h. 000110118 f?" 1310,110 WAS hoist with his own. peterd. The witnese smoothly and inno- tem tly Answered, "9 eith see you plainly sir, amongst Ihe other lawyers, thourea you taoe not ed bit oonspieuous" Ai 811 81